LEGAL REGULATION OF SECRET INQUISITIONAL (SEARCH) ACTIONS IN THE CRIMINAL JUDICIAL LEGISLATION OF UKRAINE Tolochko Oleksandr Nikolaevich, PhD at law, associate professor, deserved lawyer of Ukraine, 3rd class State justice advisor. <...> E-mail: tolochko_53@mail.ru Annotation Background: Scientific research of pressing theoretical and applied questions of aspects of secret inquisitional (search) actions and making suggestions about the improvement of their legal adjusting. <...> Materials and methods: The problems of realization of secret inquisitional(search) actions in a criminal production attract attention many authors. <...> Nevertheless a necessity for further research of problem of regulation of secret inquisitional(search) actions is dictated also and that work on the improvement of criminal judicial norms is conducted constantly taking into account monitoring of practical problems of application of new criminal statute. <...> Results: Introduction of secret inquisitional(search) actions to the system of criminal procedure comes true first, in fact before the order of prosecuting a pre-trial inquiry of crimes took place in such legal forms, where the indicated actions had status of operatively-search measures and could be conducted by only authorized on that by operative subdivisions. <...> The results of scientific development of differentiation of operative and criminal judicial activity, and also determination of concept and list of operativelysearch, reconnaissance and contrreconnaissance measures, will assist preparation of scientifically reasonable suggestions on perfection of legal regulation of their realization the corresponding subjects of the indicated types of the special activity, and simultaneously will become another step in expansion of theory last. <...> Conclusions: It is necessary to remove with the purpose of improvement of the normatively-legal adjusting of operatively-search and criminal judicial activity, present in legislation substantial contradictions. <...> Foremost, at legislative level operative and criminal judicial activity, and also determination of concept and list of operatively-search, reconnaissance, contrreconnaissance measures, requires clear differentiation. <...> ГКФШЧ UФrКТ'Чв „PrШ ШpОrКЭвvЧШ-rШгsСЮФШvЮ НТУКХ'ЧТsЭ'” vТН 18 ХУЮЭШРШ 1992 rШФЮ № 2135-XII.: [Elektron. resurs]. <...> Instrukcija pro organizaciju provedennja neglasnyh slidchyh (rozshukovyh) dij ta vykorystannja i'h rezul'tativ u kryminal'nomu provadzhenni zatverdzhena spil'nym nakazom General'noi' prokuratury UKrai'ny, Mininsterstva vnutrishnih sprav Ukrai'ny, Sluzhby bezpeky Ukrai'ny, derzhavnoi' mytnoi' sluzhby Ukrai'ny, Ministerstva <...>